Reading List
- ARIA 1.1. “text” role (first draft) by James Craig, Apple’s nice man.
- The Responsive Images Community Group: What Comes Next – by Matttt Marquis. TL;DR: Element Queries – “a method of handling layouts within specific elements based on the dimensions of the elements themselves rather than the viewport size alone”.
- Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China < excellent article, practical advice
- The App Bubble Burst: The Coming App Economy Correction – “The bubble bursting does not mean an end of the sector, but instead a realignment similar to that caused by the dot com bubble burst. The shake out will leave a more sustainable market.” by MIDiA consulting
- Kind of related: Monument Valley game gets new levels, but one-star reviews for charging – “Despite its rapid growth and explosion in creativity, the mobile games market has moments that would make any sane person hammer palm to face repeatedly.”
- Yes, Isis exploits technology. But that’s no reason to compromise our privacy – excellent Guardian piece on GCHQ: “Mr Hannigan then switches tack in vintage I-say-Biggles-these-fiends-are-devilishly-clever mode.”
- Internet Architecture Board Statement on Internet Confidentiality – “The IAB urges protocol designers to design for confidential operation by default. We strongly encourage developers to include encryption in their implementations, and to make them encrypted by default. We similarly encourage network and service operators to deploy encryption where it isnot yet deployed, and we urge firewall policy administrators to permit encrypted traffic.”
- W3C Highlights – October 2014 – digest of the annual TPAC meet-up etc.
- Web standards for the future cute non-techy 2 minute video from W3C about why standards are important. I like it to show my kids and NGMs what I do, which is basically helping to build Skynet through the medium of mailing lists.
- Opera CEO goes Bollywood dancing to celebrate 50 million Mini users in India. When I started with Opera, we had 50m users world-wide. Now it’s 50m just in India, and 350m globally. Here’s a video of our CEO, Lars Bollyson, dancing.
- Talking of which, Thanks to Microsoft, Opera just got 100M potential new mobile browser users – Microsoft feature phone users are being transitioned from Nokia Xpress browser to Opera Mini. The top three countries for the Xpress Browser are India, Indonesia and Brazil. (Note: 100m potential new users; not everyone will “transition”, of course.)
- HTML5 Accessibility – “information about which new HTML5 user interface features are accessibility supported in browsers”. TL;DR: “Firefox and Chrome are beating the pants off IE!”
- Tenon “is a one of a kind accessibility testing tool… which can be seamlessly integrated into your existing toolset…This ability to test early and often allows you to catch and fix accessibility issues before they happen, not after, and allows you to release accessible code from the beginning.” < in free public beta. Disclosure: made by Karl Groves, a friend of mine
- Confused corner: Why you should worry about HTML5 mobile apps – “New research demonstrates that, unlike native apps, those written in HTML5 are susceptible to code injection attacks” because of “middleware” like WebView or PhoneGap “that is susceptible to malicious code injection”. Unlike those totally secure native apps.
- Internet Xmas Party by Luke and Charlotte – for London-based freelancers, homeworkers & other just-pants-all-day folk
- Understanding Millennials””How do Potatoes Fit into Their Lives? – thrilling press release from The United States Potato Board. Take a moment to read it; people spent some of their short time on this planet to write this. Bonus points for the stock photographs, too. I know these people; they’re Norwegian.
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